Almost 4 weeks

I'm officially out of language school now. It was the same relief of getting out of normal school. It felt like hell when you were in it but now that I'm out I'm realizing I will miss all my friends. Not saying I got along perfectly with everyone because not everyone sees eye to eye but I'll miss the different views on life. One main thing that I'm kicking myself for wasn't for not learning German as well as I could of cuz I'm scraping by now. The thing I'm kicking myself for is forgetting most of the exchange students would speak spanish. I should of brushed up a little or something. Its not even that I feel that I'm missing out it'd just be nice to know what they're talking about. Ive made a smaller group of friends inside the whole group of exchange students. The group is Elise who gave me my nickname "Canada" and who makes fun of my "accent" from New York ("the state not the city")  Emily from New Mexico and Rachael from Indiana. They're hilarious and we always kill ourselves laughing around each other. I'm really grateful for them otherwise I wouldn't be having nearly as much fun as I've had. We've hung out a couple times after school and are planning to see each other more often during our normal school year. Elise has a vlog that she should finish up today so I'll put a link to her video somewhere on this page. I went through a really rough week because of homesickness so I think I'm good now, Im finally completely comfortable with my host house and family. I'm planning to Skype my family once they wake up because its 9 at home right now. It'll be nice to see my sisters and my parents. Even though I already skyped my parents once. I realize that I haven't been posting as much as I should be but in truth I haven't been thinking of it, Ill do my best to post at least once a week. I might just use saturdays because thats easiest.

So, this week:
The gang and I hung out Tuesday at my host house. We did Rachaels and Elise's Ice bucket challenge. Which we filmed with my Gopro (no its not a bra)

(Rachael and I)

We then all went swimming and just hung out and talked about exchange and told stories from back home. And of course we all died laughing.

Me and Elise being ratchet

Then on Wednesday we went shopping which wasn't actually that bad. We checked out this cool company called Freitag which makes bags out of recycled semi truck covers and then looked at all these stores underneath a bridge which was really cool. AND I SAW THIS AWESOME BAG IN A STORE AND IT WAS MADE OUT OF RECYCLED SAILS AND THERE WAS A CANADIAN MAPLE LEAF ON IT IN RED STITCHING AND I WANTED IT SOOO BAD. Im still sad I couldn't buy it because it was 138 CHF (cough mom and dad cough cough). The Freitag building was made out of shipping containers and you could climb to the top soooo:

(Me, Racheal, Elise, and Emily)

Thursday we didn't hangout but apparently I'm still a tourist because I got stuck on a train that was heading back to Zurich and had to explain in German to the Conductor (this one was nice) that I had been listening to music so I hadn't heard the signal for last stop and was locked on the train. He was kind enough to bring the train out of the yard and let me off. But it was really scary and I didn't like it.

Me stuck on said train.

Friday we decided to hangout but had no plan whatsoever for the night. We first went to Rachaels which was a beautiful apartment which Im in love with. We ate pizza and hangout and then we went to Elises which is an hour away so I don't know why we went :P We missed the bus so we walked 30 minutes with Rachael flipping out about bunnies we saw and the food here and boys here. Then we watched princess diaries will Skyping Rachaels friend which was fun. We then all went back to Zurich to split up. So first went to the bus stop and sat there for like 30 minutes and just told stories and goofed around. We finally caught the bus and then got to Zurich. I got home at 12 and didn't sleep till three and then today my host family is at a family reunion so Im being babysat.

Stay updated on my adventures in Switzerland.